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This storied river : legends & lore of the upper Mississippi /
"The book is neither a traveler's guide to the Mississippi River nor a linear history. Instead, it is a series of historical stories, at times humorous, about people and places linked by the Mississippi River that inform modern travelers about the Upper Mississippi and its role in our regi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, WI :
Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Up the famous river, again
- Julien Dubuque and the mines of Spain
- Boom town on the fever
- Stonefield on the river
- Guttenberg's misspelled honor
- A Scotsman on the river
- Diamond Jo Reynolds
- Zebulon Pike and his peak
- A most historical spot
- The button boom
- Treasure from the mud
- Effigy mounds and eternal mysteries
- When the river ran red
- Steamboats on the river
- The most terrible conflagration
- The city that named an actress
- Alma, a nineteenth-century river town
- The father of waterskiing
- And the river runs unruly
- Winona and the Maiden's Rock
- Red Wing, the shoe leather city
- Fort Snelling, outpost on the river
- A search as long as a river
- Elsewhere on the river.